Package org.eclipse.xtext.resource

Interface IExternalContentSupport

All Known Implementing Classes:

ExternalContentSupport

public interface IExternalContentSupport

Allows to configure an arbitrary ResourceSet with an external content provider. Such a resource sets may obtain the content for a resource from a dirty in-memory state instead of the persistent state of the underlying IResource, file or similar.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface	Description
static interface	IExternalContentSupport.IExternalContentProvider	Lightweight abstraction for a contributor of external state.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	configureResourceSet(org.eclipse.emf.ecore.resource.ResourceSet resourceSet, IExternalContentSupport.IExternalContentProvider contentProvider)	Configure the resource set with an provider of dirty or external content.

Method Detail

configureResourceSet

void configureResourceSet(org.eclipse.emf.ecore.resource.ResourceSet resourceSet,
                          IExternalContentSupport.IExternalContentProvider contentProvider)

Configure the resource set with an provider of dirty or external content. The resource set will transparently use the external content to populate its resources. Subsequent calls will create sort of layers that allow to shadow previously provided content. Neither of both arguments may be null.